farce
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China described the visit as a "stowaway-style escape farce".
From BBC • May 2, 2026
Redactions, supposedly to protect victims, are so sweeping as to make a farce of the exercise.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026
The Brit Awards have recognised the cream of British and global pop music since they were first held in 1977, but have often been peppered with scandal and farce.
From Barron's • Feb. 28, 2026
But it also helps foster the jealousy-driven farce that takes over the current-day narrative and is genuinely funny: a rejiggered timeline in which McCarrol becomes a massive pop star and Johnson gets left behind.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2026
It was a silent agreement in which each party knew what proper respects to pay, a polite farce created to ease the strain of acknowledging who owed who and what.
From "Bodega Dreams" by Ernesto Quinonez
Vocabulary lists containing farce
"The Odyssey" by Homer, Books 14–18
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